🚀 go-pugleaf

Caltrans never learns.  Those freeways with the T shaped columns
directly under are dangerous.  Look at how unstable it is.  Just like
trying to balance a dinning room table on one foot and to expect it to
stay upright once you set your plate down.


David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote in message news:<3B72C87B.38024F02@but.us.chickens>...
> "Paul S. Highland" wrote:
>  
> > Vincent Valencio wrote:
> > 
> > > What has happened to the double Decker freeway in San Francisco?  You know the
> > > one that has collapsed in the earthquake. Have they rebuilt it stronger then before?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I believe all those structures were built in the 1950s with inadequate
> > bracing.  While construction standards have improved vastly since then,
> > many people might still have fears about double-deck structures being
> > unsafe.
> 
> I admit that I cringe every time I end up driving on the double-deck
> portion of the 280 "extension", especially when I'm on the lower
> (northbound) part. (I cringe a little less driving on the Bay Bridge.)
> 
> -- 
> after the crash, there will be fewer resources, fewer products, less
> advertising... and fewer designers. there will be no more sumptuous
> coffee table annuals, no more mass-mailings on creamy paper inviting
> members to attend gala events in distant cities. phone messages will
> be left unanswered, email unreturned, websites unsurfed. there will
> be less paper and more trees, fewer cars and more walkers, less airtime
> and more air. people will feel less assaulted by images and products
> and more attentive to the spaces between them. and they will begin to
> call these undesigned spaces "nature."
> 
> - Adbusters (www.adbusters.org)